Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
Jobs via Dice, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Overview
Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Up2date Technologies, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today!
Job Details
Job Title:
Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
Location:
Arizona
Client:
Arizona Department of Health Services
Duration:
3 to 4 Months
Location Note:
Highly prefer candidates in Arizona – can try remote.
Key Responsibilities
Agile Delivery & Sprint Management — Lead end-to-end delivery from initiation through formal closure.
Manage Agile sprint ceremonies including planning, daily standups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
Facilitate Scrum events and remove impediments to ensure milestone-based delivery.
Coordinate dependencies across development, data engineering, QA, DevOps, BA, and architecture workstreams.
Stakeholder Communication & Governance — Own stakeholder communication, escalation management, and executive governance reporting.
Run Steering Committee meetings, status checkpoints, and sprint review demos.
Maintain dashboards covering scope, schedule, quality, risk, and financial KPIs.
Risk, Issue & Change Management — Maintain the project risk register and drive mitigation actions.
Track milestone delivery and manage risks, issues, and change requests through formal change control.
Coordinate vendor-client dependencies including environment access, dataset delivery, UAT scheduling, and knowledge transfer.
Documentation & Deliverable Ownership — Maintain project documentation including project plan, RACI, risk register, status reports, and change logs.
Ensure all contractual deliverables across milestones are completed and formally accepted.
Support contracts team with scope change orders and subcontracting disclosures.
Required Qualifications
12+ years of IT project management experience delivering web and data platform engagements end-to-end.
Experience running Agile / SAFe programs with milestone-based acceptance in public sector or regulated environments.
Active Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, or SAFe Scrum Master) and/or PMP.
Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or Jira for sprint planning, backlog management, and reporting.
Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and vendor-client coordination.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive and technical audiences.
Experience managing risk registers, change control, and governance reporting for public-sector programs.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience delivering public-facing data portals, analytics, or health information systems for government agencies.
SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or equivalent certification.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps) and AWS environments.
Familiarity with HIPAA, HITECH, ADA Section 508, and data privacy expectations.
Experience coaching teams and working with Steering Committees.
Technical Environment
Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint, Teams
AWS environments (Dev/Test/Prod), Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git CI/CD
SAFe Agile, Scrum, milestone-based acceptance
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Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Up2date Technologies, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today!
Job Details
Job Title:
Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
Location:
Arizona
Client:
Arizona Department of Health Services
Duration:
3 to 4 Months
Location Note:
Highly prefer candidates in Arizona – can try remote.
Key Responsibilities
Agile Delivery & Sprint Management — Lead end-to-end delivery from initiation through formal closure.
Manage Agile sprint ceremonies including planning, daily standups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
Facilitate Scrum events and remove impediments to ensure milestone-based delivery.
Coordinate dependencies across development, data engineering, QA, DevOps, BA, and architecture workstreams.
Stakeholder Communication & Governance — Own stakeholder communication, escalation management, and executive governance reporting.
Run Steering Committee meetings, status checkpoints, and sprint review demos.
Maintain dashboards covering scope, schedule, quality, risk, and financial KPIs.
Risk, Issue & Change Management — Maintain the project risk register and drive mitigation actions.
Track milestone delivery and manage risks, issues, and change requests through formal change control.
Coordinate vendor-client dependencies including environment access, dataset delivery, UAT scheduling, and knowledge transfer.
Documentation & Deliverable Ownership — Maintain project documentation including project plan, RACI, risk register, status reports, and change logs.
Ensure all contractual deliverables across milestones are completed and formally accepted.
Support contracts team with scope change orders and subcontracting disclosures.
Required Qualifications
12+ years of IT project management experience delivering web and data platform engagements end-to-end.
Experience running Agile / SAFe programs with milestone-based acceptance in public sector or regulated environments.
Active Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, or SAFe Scrum Master) and/or PMP.
Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or Jira for sprint planning, backlog management, and reporting.
Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and vendor-client coordination.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive and technical audiences.
Experience managing risk registers, change control, and governance reporting for public-sector programs.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience delivering public-facing data portals, analytics, or health information systems for government agencies.
SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or equivalent certification.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps) and AWS environments.
Familiarity with HIPAA, HITECH, ADA Section 508, and data privacy expectations.
Experience coaching teams and working with Steering Committees.
Technical Environment
Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint, Teams
AWS environments (Dev/Test/Prod), Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git CI/CD
SAFe Agile, Scrum, milestone-based acceptance
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